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Description

The imperfect nature of context in Ambient Intelligence (AmI)
environments, and the special characteristics of the entities that possess
and share the available context information render contextual reasoning a
very challenging task. The accomplishment of this task requires formal
models that handle the involved entities as autonomous logic-based agents,
and provide methods for handling the imperfect and distributed nature of
context.

In this talk, we descrinea solution based on the Multi-Context Systems
formalism, in which local context knowledge of AmI agents is encoded in
rule theories (contexts), and information flow between agents is achieved
through mapping rules associating concepts used by different contexts. To
handle the imperfect nature of context, we extend Multi-Context Systems
with non-monotonic features: local defeasible theories, defeasible
mappings, and a preference relation on the system contexts. We present
this novel representation model, called Contextual Defeasible Logic,
describe its argumentation semantics, propose a sound and complete
algorithm for distributed query evaluation, and a number of variants for
this algorithm. We conclude with a review of some ongoing work.